Siddharth Dube

A nationwide bestseller since its release in 2000 by HarperCollins India, Sex, Lies and AIDS demolishes the stock stereotype that Indians are asexual as well as government claims that the HIV epidemic is being controlled.

Simply written and with cartoons by the irrepressible Mario Miranda, Sex, Lies and AIDS can be read by anyone, whether college student, parent or politician.

Now available in a second paperback edition and in translation in several Indian languages, it is essential reading to understand the truths about Indian society, sexuality, government, and a disease that has affected millions.

An inappropriate tool: criminal law and HIV in Asia
Asian countries have applied criminal sanctions widely in areas directly relevant to national HIV programmes and policies, including criminalization of HIV transmission, sex work, homosexuality and drug injection.AIDS (Official journal of the International AIDS Society)

Bringing UNAids to book
All in all, a UN programme - whose raison d'etre should have been to be a watchdog holding all actors to the highest standards of what works against Aids - has failed to safeguard the interests, or to demonstrably put forward the felt needs and demands of those populations being most severely devastated by this pandemic.Guardian Unlimited

Sex work is no crime
At a conceptual level, the issue is this: why should any consensual sexual activity between adults — heterosexual, same sex, in exchange for money, within marriage or outside of it — be viewed within a criminal framework at all? The keywords here are 'consent' and 'adult'. The Times of India

The Global Challenge of HIV/AIDSA Critical Analysis of the Emerging Threats from the Spread of HIV/AIDS in China, India and Russia and an Update on the African Pandemic.Before the US Congressional Human Rights Caucus

Fact and fiction about AIDS
AIDS now kills about three lakh Indian adults each year. This is roughly 15 times the number of people killed in the Gujarat earthquake. And in the past 15 years, since HIV first surfaced in India, some 20 lakh to 25 lakh Indians have died of AIDS, that's a 100 or more Gujarat earthquakes.The Hindu

A nation in denial
The official view is that we are a uniquely moral society, literally that Indians don't have sex. Virtually every Indian political leader, bureaucrat and opinion-maker whom I have interviewed or talked to about HIV/AIDS has asserted this as an unquestionable truth.Indian Express

India's AIDS Explosion
Despite a decade of record economic growth in India, poverty and tragedy remain as commonplace as ever. A mounting HIV-AIDS epidemic is increasingly to blame. More than 2 million adults have died of AIDS, overwhelmingly in the country's most dynamic states.The Washington Post

"Congratulations for writing this magnificent book. I thank you on behalf of INP+ and all people living with HIV in India for presenting the correct scenario on AIDS in India."ASHOK PILLAI, Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+)